Single-player games like Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Alan Wake's American Nightmare, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Alan Wake
Single-player alternative to Alan Wake's American Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
A Dark Presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Alan Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save his love.
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The Evil Within 2
Single-player alternative to Alan Wake's American Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.
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The Sinking City Remastered
Single-player alternative to Alan Wake's American Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Powered by Unreal Engine 5, The Sinking City Remastered brings the eerie, atmospheric world of Oakmont back to life with enhanced gameplay and fully relit environments, perfect for both newcomers and returning players.
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Resident Evil Requiem
Single-player alternative to Alan Wake's American Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living. Prepare to escape death in a heart-stopping experience that will chill you to your core.
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Tormented Souls 2
Single-player alternative to Alan Wake's American Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Caroline Walker returns in the sequel to the award-winning survival horror classic. Explore the decaying remains of the secluded Villa Hess, use improvised weapons to confront terrifying creatures, and bend the fabric of reality to save your sister from a twisted cult.
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Connection: The Nightmare Within
Single-player alternative to Alan Wake's American Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Inspired by the classics such as Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Alone In the Dark: Detective Stone investigates a shadow conspiracy. Explore atmospheric levels, fight monsters, and solve puzzles. Unravel a story of twists and turns. Choose classic fixed camera, or over-the-shoulder.
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Pathologic 3
Single-player alternative to Alan Wake's American Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
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The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
Single-player alternative to Alan Wake's American Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
The Dark Pictures Anthology is a series of stand-alone, branching cinematic horror games that can also be played online with a friend. In Man of Medan, five friends set sail on a holiday diving trip that soon changes into something much more sinister.
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Serious Sam 3: BFE
Single-player alternative to Alan Wake's American Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Serious Sam 3: BFE is a prequel to the original indie fast action FPS and Game of the Year sensation - Serious Sam: The First Encounter!
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The Evil Within
Single-player alternative to Alan Wake's American Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
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Resident Evil
Single-player alternative to Alan Wake's American Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
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SILENT HILL 2
Single-player alternative to Alan Wake's American Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
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Twilight
Single-player alternative to Alan Wake's American Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Twilight is a small dividing line between light and darkness. Sometimes you have to choose where you should stay and for what purpose.
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CONTROL Ultimate Edition
Single-player alternative to Alan Wake's American Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Winner of over 80 awards, CONTROL is a visually stunning third-person action-adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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Quantum Break
Single-player alternative to Alan Wake's American Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
From Remedy Entertainment, the masters of cinematic action games, comes Quantum Break, a time-amplified suspenseful blockbuster. The Quantum Break experience is part game, part live action show—where decisions in one dramatically affect the other.
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Max Payne
Single-player alternative to Alan Wake's American Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for pain…
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Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Single-player alternative to Alan Wake's American Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a violent, film-noir love story. Dark, tragic and intense, the in-depth story is a thrill-ride of shocking twists and revelations. Love hurts.
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Death Rally
Single-player alternative to Alan Wake's American Nightmare — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Alan Wake's American Nightmare.
Load your guns, start your engines...THE CLASSIC IS BACK! Brought to you from Remedy, renowned developers of Max Payne and Alan Wake, Remedy's Death Rally classic top down racer is back, stronger and more vicious than ever.